Totalitarian prosecutions in the last 3 years: Georgia, Cuba, Turkey

Totalitarian prosecutions in the last 3 years: Georgia, Cuba, Turkey

by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2023 With the indictment of former President Donald Trump and 18 of his associates, Georgia joins an ignoble club of heavy handed prosecutions in which members of political opposition are subjected to mass trials while being accorded few rights, an analysis said. “At a press conference near midnight on Monday, […]

Assassinated candidate had exposed ex-president: ‘Ecuador has been a colony of China since 2007’

Assassinated candidate had exposed ex-president: ‘Ecuador has been a colony of China since 2007’

by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2023 A journalist and presidential candidate who had denounced communist China’s influence and confiscation of Ecuador’s natural resources was assassinated during a shootout on Aug. 9. Fernando Villavicencio, 59, who was slated to be on the ballot for the Aug. 20 presidential election alongside seven other contenders, was shot dead […]

Trudeau’s political prisoners? Freedom Convoy detainees languish in Ottawa’s gulag

Trudeau’s political prisoners? Freedom Convoy detainees languish in Ottawa’s gulag

by WorldTribune Staff, July 17, 2023 Four men charged in connection with the 2022 Freedom Convoy which protested Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Covid mandates have been detained without bail for more than 500 days without a trial date being set. Chris Lysak, Chris Carbert, Anthony (Tony) Olienick, and Jerry Morin are being held on […]

250 Canadian wildfires out of control; Media reports mum on arsonists, forest management

250 Canadian wildfires out of control; Media reports mum on arsonists, forest management

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, July 2, 2023 At least 500 active fires are burning around Canada, 257 of which are classified as “out of control,” according to the Canada Interagency Forest Fire Centre. As a result, poor air quality in several areas of the U.S. has in recent days been a hot topic on social […]

Migration crisis: 108 million worldwide and in U.S. ‘human trafficking rings operating with near impunity’

Migration crisis: 108 million worldwide and in U.S. ‘human trafficking rings operating with near impunity’

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 23, 2023 As chaos and conflict seem to be the tragic trend in many parts of the world, a sad parallel follows: Large numbers of people are fleeing and being displaced by the violence. The numbers are stunningly high and climbing according to the UN High Commissioner […]

Iran dictator completes tour of anti-U.S. axis: Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela

Iran dictator completes tour of anti-U.S. axis: Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela

by WorldTribune Staff, June 22, 2023 Iranian President President Ebrahim Raisi concluded a Latin American trip on June 16 by saying the Islamic Republic’s ties to the communist states he visited, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, are not a “normal but rather a strategic” relationship against foreign interference. “Iran has just finalized a tour across Latin […]

As Blinken pays respects to Xi Jinping, new reports raise prospect of Chinese troops in Cuba

As Blinken pays respects to Xi Jinping, new reports raise prospect of Chinese troops in Cuba

by WorldTribune Staff, June 20, 2023 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken jetted to Beijing on Monday in a move to smooth ties with, rather than deter communist leader Xi Jinping who immediately rebuffed Blinken’s request to re-establish a military back channel. Blinken told reporters after meeting with Xi that he “repeatedly” raised the matter […]

Hegemony watch: China’s on-again spy facility in Cuba, established in 2001

Hegemony watch: China’s on-again spy facility in Cuba, established in 2001

FPI / June 14, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In a classic public-relations bungle, a June 9 leak by “U.S. officials” to the Wall Street Journal said that “China and Cuba have reached a secret agreement for China to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island.” Already Cuba’s largest trading partner since 2016, the […]

Multiple arsonists arrested for Canada wildfires; Biden-Trudeau-Media blame climate change

Multiple arsonists arrested for Canada wildfires; Biden-Trudeau-Media blame climate change

by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2023 Multiple arsonists have been arrested in connection with the wildfires in Canada which have enveloped U.S. states from New York to Minnesota in thick smoke and haze. “Several arsonists have been arrested in the past weeks in different provinces for lighting forest fires,” People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime […]

$5,000 holes in the border wall exploited by cartels and aspiring ‘gotaways’, the ‘scumbags’

$5,000 holes in the border wall exploited by cartels and aspiring ‘gotaways’, the ‘scumbags’

by WorldTribune Staff, May 16, 2023 Mexican cartels are cutting holes in the border wall large enough for adults to pass through. They charge $5,000 a pop to go through the holes and many migrants successfully make it through as “gotaways” into the U.S. interior, a reporter who saw them up close and personal said. […]

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